Video Game Accessibility: Enhancing Problem Solving, Creativity, And Teamwork

Benefits of Video Games for Individuals with Disabilities

Video games can easily boost various things in players like problem-solving, creativity and lastly developing teamwork (Ferguson, 2015). There is large number of disabling players who come up with limited opportunities for enjoying various games. There is large number of visual issues which needs to participate in the games for rich graphics. It is mainly done in comparison so that there are rich graphics and mobility issues which comes up with a game controller.

Different people has different playing Style

Video games can be considered to be a growing hobby nowadays as it can easily have integrated with various forms of interactive entertainment. With increase in population for gamers, there has need for accessibility of game. It is due to individuality along with disabilities in the whole medium of connection. Accessibility of game is not a well-known topic but there has a been an ongoing demand for making the game much more flexible in nature.

 Video games have been designed in such a way that it brings from various works of life in together way (Gentile, Bender & Anderson, 2017). It can easily bring each and every people for walk of life in together way. It comes up with accessibility which can be easily achieved. It can be done in early phase of planning at the time of development. Games are focusing on accessibility

There have been some additional steps which are provided for accessibility for both individuals and disabilities. AbleGammers is a well-known organization which tends provides custom held controls for individuals who come up with upper body of limitation. The group can easily provide hardware assistance to individual who comes individual along with physical disabilities.

Not every people around the globe can afford the time and energy for finding time and energy which is suitable for them (Smith, Gradisar & King, 2015). It requires to be deployed so that it can find the implementation accessibility with the game. Artificial intelligence aims to offer a proper kind of solution for making the games more engaging in nature.

Accessible Gaming is award winning and net worthy

There is large number of things which needs to be considered for understanding the video game accessibility. It is important to understand the definite number of things. With passing year, there has been increase in gaming population which comes up with diverse group of individuals who wants to be a part of this community.

Various people around the globe make use of video games as a way to cope up with disability (Engelhardt et al., 2015). It would be shame for large number of people if developers are not included as a part of the community. Accessibility is an important element which is needed for developing games.

Conclusion 

From the above pages, it can be easily concluded that this report is all about video game accessibility. At present, there is large number of resources available for both gamers with disabilities. Both individual and organization come up with certain number of challenges for proper adaptation or modification of control for people.  One of the major accessibilities in the gaming domain is that it can easily increase the total number of gamers.

References

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Ferguson, C. J. (2015). Do angry birds make for angry children? A meta-analysis of video game influences on children’s and adolescents’ aggression, mental health, prosocial behavior, and academic performance. Perspectives on psychological science, 10(5), 646-666.

Gentile, D. A., Bender, P. K., & Anderson, C. A. (2017). Violent video game effects on salivary cortisol, arousal, and aggressive thoughts in children. Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 39-43.

Smith, L. J., Gradisar, M., & King, D. L. (2015). Parental influences on adolescent video game play: a study of accessibility, rules, limit setting, monitoring, and cybersafety. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 18(5), 273-279.